Pennsylvania Church Is Vandalized with Satanic Messages, Imagery

A Pennsylvania church has been vandalized by perpetrators who drew satanic images and references on its property.

The incident, which is currently under investigation, took place last Friday at The Lititz Church of the Brethren. The Lititz Borough Police Department came by the church to investigate and found messages such as “Hail Satan,” “Kill God,” and “666,” which is known as the mark of the beast. Imagery such as a pentagram was also discovered.

“The imagery and references were discovered to have been written on the rear exterior wall of the church and also on the pavilion ground and tables to the rear of the church building,” the police said in a statement. “The imagery and references were written with chalk and were subsequently able to be cleaned off without any damage to the property.”

Authorities added that the vandalism likely took place “during the overnight hours between the evening of 12/03/2021 and the morning of 12/04/2021.”

On Monday, the church’s lead pastor, Eric Landram, told The Christian Post that the church has never been defaced before.

He noted that the church is “treating it as a one-time prank and are not concerned by the antics.”

Apart from “what has already been reported, we have no additional comments to make at this time,” Landram continued.

Just a few days later, a man vandalized the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., by smashing the face of a statue. The vandal also broke off the statue’s hands and took them as he ran away.

As reported by Fox 5 DC, the incident occurred Sunday night and was discovered Monday morning by Basilica security personnel.

Last month, three churches in DeLand, FL, were vandalized as well. Vandals smashed windows and toppled statues.

Over the past year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recorded at least 113 incidents of arson, vandalism, and destruction at Catholic churches across 29 states and the District of Columbia since May 2020.

“These incidents of vandalism have ranged from the tragic to the obscene, from the transparent to the inexplicable. There remains much we do not know about this phenomenon, but at a minimum, they underscore that our society is in sore need of God’s grace,” the USCCB said in a statement in October.

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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer. He is also the co-hosts of the For Your Soul podcast, which seeks to equip the church with biblical truth and sound doctrine. Visit his blog Blessed Are The Forgiven.

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